MTV’s Total Request Live is soon to be no more. After a 10 year run the program will be shutting it’s Time Square blinds on “a Saturday afternoon in November”.
Exec. producer David Sirulnick warns us this may not be the last we see of TRL, and that the show needed a “break”.
It was once the utmost honor for an artist to appear on TRL, and having a #1 video was like having a #1 album. Over the past few years ratings and credibility has plummeted and we agree that it’s time for TRL to turn off the lights.
In an uterly devestating statement, Britney’s manager Larry Rudolph told Ryan Seacrest yesterday that there will absolutely, positively be NO VMA peformance.
“Britney Spears will not be performing at the VMAs this year. I’m telling you officially and unequivocally.”
2008 is an election year, so MTV’s Rock the Vote is back and in full effect. Check out their site for info on candidates, issues and most important, to register to vote in 2008.
Jive and friends have pissed me off today. Someone involved with what i’m sure is the label has taken down the video we posted earlier today featuring Brit’s stand in rocking the VMA performance.
Well just for that, I’m posting this split screen of Brit’s performance and the stand in’s performance-you haven’t gotten to this one yet.
reports are still swimming around surrounding “VMA-Gate”. Britney, who for reasons we already know, hardly rehearsed her VMA “comeback” routine and instead most of the time had a stand in do the dirty work. Newly posted on YouTube is the below clip, a tape of Brit’s stand in doing the real choreography for the routine. The stand in isn’t even nearly as talented a dancer as Brit and it still looks HOT. Too bad Brit couldn’t deliver, it would have been really quite amazing…what the public and her fans expect.
**we’re experiencing technical difficulties at the moment, so until we get our Youtube player working, please check out the clip here
“Even though it’s been years since the channel has shown the videos it honors, the MTV Video Music Awards persist. This year’s top nominees, announced today, are Beyonce and Justin Timberlake with seven apiece, followed by Kanye West and Rihanna with five, and Amy Winehouse with three.
MTV typically waits until the very last second to find/announce a host for its signature awards show, but thus far West, Winehouse, Rihanna, Fall Out Boy, Lily Allen, Chris Brown and Foo Fighters are committed to perform, with more acts to be announced soon.
In at least a nod to the fact that MTV is no longer really a music video network, a few new categories have been added to the show. Male and Female artist of the year recognize an artist’s complete body of work in 2007, while Monster Single of the Year and Quadruple Threat award (honoring “those boundary-busting artists who have conquered multiple worlds including, but not limited to; music, fashion, philanthropy, business, acting and dance”) give the network’s bookers latitude to honor celebrities who haven’t had much of a video presence, but who might bring in some ratings.
If that seems slightly desperate, it is. For years, the Video Music Awards were MTV’s highest-rated programming event. Launched in 1984, with Dan Aykroyd and Bette Midler hosting, the ceremony was a remarkably fresh and satirical take on dull old awards shows. Because its premise was that the awards themselves were a joke — statuettes went to bands for videos in which they often didn’t appear, let alone direct — celebrities were looser and more spontaneous, and so was the show.”
